The Coles College of Business, a partner of The M&A Source, is offering another 5-day  Certified M&A Professional program  September 28 - October 2, 2015.  Participants who attend the program earn a Certified M&A Professional certificate and can jump-start the educational requirements for the M&A Master Intermediary certification (M&AMI).  More information about the 5-day program is available  here .

We hope to see everyone in Albuquerque, New Mexico for our Fall Conference November 9-12, 2015 .  Get ready for another great conference! We will be offering  six educational courses  in Albuquerque, so there will be something for everyone. The workshop schedule is set and filled with topical, exciting panels - including "Private Equity War Stories" and "Tax Challenges and Solutions/New Issues on the Landscape." 

Check out the full conference schedule here and start planning your trip today! Registration opens soon!

Keep an eye out for our conference hashtag - #MASinABQ, and be sure to use it as well in any of your own social media postings about this great event!

• Plan, design and write a program/presentation
• Determine realistic timing so that everything is covered to the level desired in the time available
• Set the desired group environment and maintain control
• Use presentation methods other than lecture
• Design and professionally use visual aids and Power Point tips
• Develop effective personal delivery skills
• Develop effective group facilitation skills and the proper use of questions
• Overcome nervousness/butterflies associated with speaking in front of a live audience or a video camera
• Actively engage and hold your audience's attention
• Use humor in presentations and training
• Create a checklist and tips for M&A Source conference presentations
• Organize and prepare panelists and successfully moderate panel discussions

Review the details and register here. 

The M&A Source is going digital - let us hear your laptop talk!

Don't worry, we haven't channeled Olivia Newton-John, but all of us at M&A Source Headquarters are excited that we now have two online courses! Check out all of the current and future online courses here. 

The M&A Source hosts one-hour educational webinars on a variety of topics pertaining to the middle-market, including financial and tax issues, ways to improve your M&A practice, legality and more! These webinars are provided at no cost. Recordings of the monthly webinars are also archived and available for download at any time exclusively to M&A Source members. Join today!

To learn more about upcoming webinars, please visit our website.

M&A Source members are able to attend M&A Source conferences and educational courses for hundreds of dollars less than non-members. In addition, non-members miss out on FREE year-round access to First Research reports.

First Research highlights the key information you need to connect with clients - and makes it easy to use that insight to win more business. Industry Profiles are easy to read and continuously updated.

The average First Research Industry Profile cost to non-M&A Source members is $139 per report, but thanks to this EXCLUSIVE agreement, M&A Source members can obtain these Industry Profiles for FREE. This means if you utilize just four reports in a year, you have already more than offset the cost of your membership! See our  Member Benefits page for more information.